Re: Problems installing Oracle9i on Fedora with 256 RAM

Fedora is, to coin a phrase, a steaming pile of ... er, well, you get the picture.

It doesn't install as a Vmware guest. It won't install onto my (very much physical) laptop.

This despite Mandrake 9, Mandrake 9.1, Suse 7.2, Suse 7.3, RHAS2.1, RHAS3, RH8, RH9 and Xandros all installing perfectly onto both.

I thought Microsoft got a bad name for making their users beta test their software?!

And yes, I know Fedora is the "experimental" branch of the Red Hat tree. But I think in the context of Oracle I would leave the experimenting to others.

Regards
HJR "Brian Peasland" <dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com> wrote in message news:40586BA4.610D0641_at_remove_spam.peasland.com...
> > First of all, is there any way I can install Oracle9i MANUALLY on
> > Fedora Core 1,
> > instead of using the Oracle Installer?
>
> I haven't seen any manual installs. The closest thing I've seen to a
> manual install is to tar up $ORACLE_HOME on one server and move it to
> another server, but that's after it has been installed on the first one.
>
> > Next, I tried installing Oracle9i on Fedora using the instructions
> > from oracle-base.com and puschitz.com's articles and I tried about 20
> > times. It worked just once.
>
> Have you look at Howard's article on http://www.dizwell.com for
> installing Oracle on Linux? While not specific to Fedora Core 1, it does
> have lots of nice information.
>
> > I have only 256 Megs RAM and 2 Gigs of Swap!
>
> 256MB of RAM is probably not enough. The bare minimum I would use would
> be 512MB or RAM.
>
> > And is it ok if I even accidently ignore the ins_oemagent.mk errors,
> > and it
> > installs fine thereafter? ( Which only happened once in 20 times that
> > I got so far)
>
> You can ignore these errors, but then the Intelligent Agent most likely
> won't work until you do recompile the executables. This can be done with
> the 'relink' utility.
>
> HTH,
> Brian
>
>
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Received on Wed Mar 17 2004 - 10:11:09 CST